“If we want to answer correctly, wehave to fall back on the idea of collective catharsis. In every society, inevery collectivity, exists-must exist-a channel, an outlet through which theforces accumulated in the form of aggression can be released. This is thepurpose of games in children's institutions, of psychodramas in group therapy,and in a more general way, of illustrated magazines for children--each type ofsociety, of course, requiring its own specific kind of catharsis. The Tarzanstories, the sagas of twelve year- old explorers, the adventures of MickeyMouse, and all those "comic books" serve actually as a release forcollective aggression.”Frantz Fanon